---
title: Hearing of this strange death I remembered the old Japanese saying,—… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing of this strange death I remembered the old Japanese saying,—_Uranaiya minouyé shiradzu:_ “The fortune-teller knows not his own fate.” Who acts: Hearing, fortune teller, strange death, acquaintance. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its d
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Names of Incense Used., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/) / 17

# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 17

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hearing of this strange death I remembered the old Japanese saying,—\_Uranaiya minouyé shiradzu:\_ “The fortune-teller knows not his own fate.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hearing, fortune teller, strange death, acquaintance · **What happens:** remember, not know, hear, fate · **To what, where:** old Japanese saying, own fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hearing, fortune teller, strange death, acquaintance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:4:17
# text = Hearing of this strange death I remembered the old Japanese saying,—_Uranaiya minouyé shiradzu:_ “The fortune-teller knows not his own fate.”
1	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Uranaiya	Uranaiya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	minouyé	minouyé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	shiradzu	shiradzu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Hearing of this strange death | the old Japanese saying |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent saying=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | the fortune teller | acquaintance's own fate |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** |  | this strange death |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **fate** *in a quote* |  | acquaintance |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/16/)
- next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/18/)
- ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/4/)